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Dinosaurs in Victorian Pop Culture

I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

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Dinosaurs and Literature in the Late Nineteenth Century

Fiction and journalism made dinosaurs popular, as opposed to natural history museums. There's quite a surprising amount of work on literature and dinosaurs in the nineteenth century. Dinosaurs are not the ty extinct animal everyone loves. Theyare kind of competing with the mower and the mammoth and the megatherium. Even sloths were beggar said that people started writing about dinosaurs at the time.

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